Get A Skill In Instrument Mechanic Work NOT Instrumentation

In my 300L as a Process Engineering student I was on a job verifying the flow of a pump in an oil facility in Eket- as a regulatory requirement. With the help of the tool I used, I discovered the pump was underdelivering. I recommended that the pump be reset. I was told it would take days to get that done because the instrument mechanic has to be brought from Aba. I shook my head and wondered, with all the instrumentation and control degrees and diploma we have in Eket, no one has the instrument mechanic skill as an added advantage?

My dear Instrument and Control Engineering graduates that need skill why not for instrument mechanic work? It is true that you were taught a lot of the Engineering involved in Process Instrumentation (I did too as a Process Engineer, now specializing in Process Design). You did the Laplace and Z-Transform, The Fourier Series, The Controller Tuning, The Working Principle of Bourdon Guage, The P&ID etc. That was all that was required for your Engineering Training. Some of your friends have gotten work with it. Others that will go into lecturing will religiously hand those theories to the next generation. You that need to go for skill should get a utility based tool.

Many go for skill after their degree and get stucked in another classroom activity. The training centres would just decorate this training as Instrumentation Course. They would rehearse all you heard in school and thereafter collects a whooping sum from you and issue you another paper. The highest achievement these centres may have might be a model plant having few pipework, valves, a pump, and pressure guage. They would point hand and show you these instruments and that would be all for the training.

Choose a course in Instrument Mechanic Work instead.


Instrument mechanics in engineering are tradesmen who specialize in installing, troubleshooting, and repairing instrumentation, automation and control systems. The term instrument mechanic came about because it was a combination of light mechanical and specialised instrumentation skills. The term is still is used in certain industries; predominantly in industrial process control.

Job Description:

1) Installs, repairs, maintains, and adjusts indicating, recording, telemetering, and controlling instruments and test equipment, used to control and measure variables, such as pressure, flow, temperature, motion, force, and chemical composition, using precision instruments, and handtools: Disassembles malfunctioning instruments or test equipment, such as bargraphs, electrical ovens, multimeters, environmental cabinets, and weatherometers, and examines and tests mechanisms and circuitry for defects.

2) Replaces or repairs defective parts, using handtools.

3) Reassembles instrument or test equipment, and tests assembly for conformance to specifications, using instruments, such as potentiometer, resistance bridge, manometer, and pressure gauge.

4) Inspects instruments and test equipment periodically and adjusts calibration to ensure functioning within specified standards.

5) May calibrate instruments or test equipment according to established standards.

6) May be designated according to type of instrument repaired as Aircraft Instrument Repairer; Panel-Instrument Repairer; X-Ray-Control-Equipment Repairer.

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